Both Uses of
ostracize
in
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
- No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
Chpt 14 *ostracized = excluded from a community or group
- My whole former life—my life as a slave on the plantation, my work in the coal-mine, the times when I was without food and clothing, when I made my bed under a sidewalk, my struggles for an education, the trying days I had had at Tuskegee, days when I did not know where to turn for a dollar to continue the work there, the ostracism and sometimes oppression of my race,—all this passed before me and nearly overcame me.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(ostracize) exclude someone from a community or group